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Ideas about life after death are to be found among nearly all peoples and in nearly every era. Yet, like its counterpart Diesseits (“this life”), the term Jenseits (“afterlife”, literally “the beyond”) in German has only existed since the turn of the 18th century. The noun Jenseits is o…

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Hölscher, Lucian and
Sparn, Walter,
“Afterlife”, in:
Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Executive editor of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy.
Consulted online on 18 February 2018 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_COM_021604>